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TIL Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God

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ne1MP TIL George Lucas didn’t want Harrison Ford to play Indiana Jones because he didn’t want them to become known as a pair like DeNiro and Scorsese. Lucas and Spielberg thought Tom Selleck was perfect for the part but he had already filmed the pilot “Magnum P.I.” and couldn’t get out of the contract
Go4E TIL 67 years ago today, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. He completed the flight with two broken ribs, and as a result of the injury, had to close the hatch on the Bell X-1 with a broomstick.
OKBX TIL Marine biologists were on a nighttime dive searching for biofluorescent sea creatures in the coral reefs near the Solomon Islands when a hawksbill sea turtle glided in front of their cameras. The turtle was glowing green and red – the first biofluorescent reptile ever encountered in the wild.
N7VaM TIL West and East Berlin used two different kinds of street lights during the Cold War, producing different colours that are still visible from space, almost 30 years after the wall fell.
MeV07 TIL in 2015 a father saved his son's life when doctors wrongly declared him braindead and were taking him off life support. He barricaded himself with a gun in the hospital and had a stand-off with SWAT until his son squeezed his hand. The son made a full recovery